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Originally Posted by julon2000
Thank you all for your helpful comments! I'll take the big step and buy my first ereader, and that will be the Sony PRS-505. The Cybook seems nice too, but I prefer the look of Sony's, and as an open source enthusiast I like it to support natively the epub format. I guess it won't be ideal for technical pdf's, but I forgot to mention the obvious in my original post: I want to read books with it 
And well, if one these promising new devices is so good, I'll resell the Sony.
While I'm at it, 2 more questions:
1. it seems like there's no dealer in Switzerland yet, and after a quick look I thought about taking advantage of the low pound sterling and purchase in Waterstones.com : any objection?
2. Sony's lighted cover seems very nice too (thinking about reading in bed), and I found many positive feedbacks about it. Everybody agrees? |
I can't object to #1, since I don't know exchange rates. I think it is coming out in Germany very soon, you might want to check the price there as well.
As for #2, there were a few people who complained that the lighted cover scratched the screen. It seems some didn't fit correctly. You might want to look for those threads. It didn't seem to be the case with all of those covers.